MosesWrites

I wrote this essay over an intense few days in April of 2010, after years of reading, thinking, and conversation.

Since then, I've found the ideas I tried to articulate all the more important, so I'm sharing it now with a wider audience. You can download it here.

Recently I've been reading more intensely in work that I believe extends some of the same concerns that provoked my own thinking, most especially Sunil Amrith's The Burning Planet: An environmental history of the last 500 years​, and Partha Dasgupta's On Natural Capital: The value of the world around us. I highly recommend both books, and by way of fiction, Kim Stanley Robinson's The Ministry for the Future.

​I wrote in 2010, "In all probability our days are numbered." In 2020, reflecting on the outbreak of the Covid pandemic, I wrote "Our days are already numbered."

​Now just five years later: we've few days left to count.

Who Counts?